Report: Haswell-E, X99, DDR4 to Arrive August 29
Rumor has it that the Haswell-E CPUs will be coming out on August 29.
Considering the flood of X99 motherboard reveals we've been covering lately, it's somewhat refreshing to hear something about the Haswell-E CPUs themselves. We already have a good idea of the CPU’s specifications, but we weren’t sure about a release date yet. Now, Hermitage Akihabara, a Japanese website, has posted a new release date.
We expect three CPUs to arrive: The Core i7-5820K, the Core i7-5930K, and the Core i7-5960X. Rumored specifications are in the table.
CPU | Cores/Threads | Frequency | L3 Cache | PCI-Express Lanes | TDP | Expected Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
i7-5820K | 6 / 12 | 3.3 GHz | 15 MB | 28 | 140 W | $400 |
i7-5930K | 6 / 12 | 3.5 GHz | 15 MB | 40 | 140 W | $600 |
i7-5960X | 8 / 16 | 3.0 GHz | 20 MB | 40 | 140 W | $1000+ |
Originally we expected the Haswell-E CPUs along with the accompanying X99 motherboards and DDR4 memory to debut sometime mid-September. As it turns out, the platform launch could be a little sooner than expected, with the official availability of parts possibly taking place on Friday, August 29. This is still a rumor, but August 29 is a lot more specific than “mid-September”, and a number of product releases are also pointing towards the end of August as a release date. For now, let’s just wait and see.
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oh du, I completely forgot that the 5960X is a True Octo core cpu.
ya, this is great news on the price. Don't give up AMD...intel might go comcast on us if you do!
Based on the last roadmaps I have seen, Skylake-S is supposed to come out in the second half of 2015 just like Broadwell-K unless Intel decides to delay Skylake.
Only caveat with Skylake-S is it will not initially have any unlocked models.
The current Ivy Bridge has a higher clock rate and 130W TDP. Even the 10 core 3Ghz Xeon E5-2690 is 130W.
Does Haswell-e do more work per cycle? It looks like a step backward to me. TDP should be going down and clock up.
moar moniez from an h.e.d.t. sku where power and heat aren't necessarily issues.
You're not going to get much more out of that.
max. 8 cores, redesigned cache bus, "proper" gen 3.0 pcie implementation, ddr4, higher (regardless how much
The current Ivy Bridge has a higher clock rate and 130W TDP. Even the 10 core 3Ghz Xeon E5-2690 is 130W.
haswell-e will likely have higher ipc, so lower clock and more cores should help.
Does Haswell-e do more work per cycle? It looks like a step backward to me. TDP should be going down and clock up.
it's not a step backwards. tdp woulda gone down if intel managed to reduce power use and heat in the same 22nm process or fabbed hsw-e on 14nm.
I'm thinking not... this one might be marginally better but it doesn't look like a game changer (no pun intended)...
At this stage where single-thread performance appears to have hit a ceiling, the only way to scale performance up significantly is adding cores but for that to go anywhere, programs have to be written accordingly.
Until then, AMD and Intel could make 16-cores mainstream CPUs and it would make almost no difference for most people since there is so little everyday software that actually makes meaningful use of more than two or three threads at a time.
I can write software with 50 specialized worker threads but I rarely have more than two or three doing any useful work at any given time. The rest of the time, they are just sleeping on a semaphore or event/signal for something to do.
with xxx TDP
*grin*
How can AMD compete with that?